Your class project is an opportunity for you to explore an
interesting machine learning problem of your choice in the context of a
real-world data set. Projects can be done by you as an individual, or in
teams of two students. Instructors and TAs will consult with you on your ideas, but of
course the final responsibility to define and execute an interesting piece
of work is yours. Your project will
be worth 20% of your final class grade, and will have 4 deliverables:

You must turn in a brief project proposal (1-page maximum).
Read the list of available data sets and potential project ideas below. You
have to use one of these data sets, because we know that they have been
successfully used for machine learning in the past.

Project proposal format: Proposals should be one page
maximum. Include the following information:

Project title

Data set

Project idea. This should be approximately two
paragraphs.

Software you will need to write.

Papers to read. Include 1-3 relevant papers. You will
probably want to read at least one of them before submitting your
proposal

Teamate: will you have a teamate? If so, whom? Maximum
team size is two students.

Nov 8 milestone: What will you complete by Nov 8?
Experimental results of some kind are expected here. You should also
describe what portion of the project each partner will be doing.

This should be a 3-4 pages short report, and it serves as a
check-point. It should consist of the same sections as your final report
(introduction, related work, method, experiment, conclusion), with a few
sections `under construction'. Specifically, the introduction and related
work sections should be in their final form; the section on the proposed
method should be almost finished; the sections on the experiments and
conclusions will have whatever results you have obtained, as well as
`place-holders' for the results you plan/hope to obtain.

Grading scheme for the project report:

70% for proposed method (should be almost finished)

25% for the design of upcoming experiments

5% for plan of activities (in an appendix, please show
the old one and the revised one, along with the activities of each group
member)

We will have all projects presenting a poster, on Project
poster session: Mon Nov 21 4-6:30pm in the Newell-Simon Hall Atrium.
At least one project member should be present during the poster hours. The
session will be open to everybody.